Burn-in test

[rodi]

Hi

I need to do a Burn-in Test of the HP L1000 (rp5400) server, running HP-UX 11i.

Anyone know how to do the stress test on this machine using script or tools?

The purpose of this test is make sure HDD or RAM or Processor are working fine. I/O is fine as well.


Thanks & Rgds,

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

Fire up STM (either via cstm mstm or xstm depending on your preference, command line, menu, or X), and take a look at the 'exercise' utilitys...

HTH

Duncan

[rodi]

I want it to be running 48 hours non-stop. Can it be done?

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

With regards to cstm, it is the command-line interface for stm, allowing you to interface it with scripts.

An example script stub to allow the exercise test to continue from now until Dec 16:

======================================
#!/sbin/sh

while sleep 1
do
if date|grep "Dec 16" >/dev/null 2>&1
then
exit 0
else
cstm <# Enter commands here
map ...
exercise ...
EOF
fi
done
======================================

With regards to exercising disks, apart from using stm, you can also make use of stkio which is an I/O stress-test and benchmarking tool.

It is downloadable from

http://www.storagetek.com/products/software/freeware/stkio/

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong
Brainbench MVP for Unix Admin
http://www.brainbench.com

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Certainly can be....

Using cstm:
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map # to find the a devicname- i'll choose a cpu which is device number 21 on my workstation

sel dev 22 # select the device

eop time 2880 # set the time for the tool to run to 2880 minutes or 48 hours

exc # start the tool
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-You can check how far through this is with map, or get some more detail using 'eal'

You can also end the tool later if you wish using 'abt'

HTH!

Duncan